{"product_id":"the-scolds-bridle-1","title":"The Scold's Bridle","description":"Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year\u003cbr\u003eI wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe police assume that the coroner will * a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda's diaries have disappeared . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'An atmosphere of tantalizing, overpowering menace . . . The tradition of the English whodunnit has passed into the safe hands and dangerous imagination of Minette Walters' The Times","brand":"bookshop.lol","offers":[{"title":"Thryft - Used (Like New)","offer_id":42513506992206,"sku":"9781447208099","price":9.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Very Good)","offer_id":42513507024974,"sku":"9781447208099","price":8.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Good)","offer_id":42513507057742,"sku":"9781447208099","price":7.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Well Read)","offer_id":42513507090510,"sku":"9781447208099","price":7.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/3857\/4926\/files\/12577635_f4562320-4894-4fe3-8766-7c47865c1882.jpg?v=1747369940","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.lol\/products\/the-scolds-bridle-1","provider":"bookshop.lol","version":"1.0","type":"link"}